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Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching
by Adam Alter
by Adam Alter
This book is absolutely, astoundingly, brain-dripping-out-of-my-ear, dreadful. Once more, a 'researcher' explores digital media and - with little evidence and a lot of hyperbole - locates "The addict in all of us." Supposedly, online pornography, gaming and mobile phones have made 'all of us' addicts.
There is no understanding of the sociology of the internet, footnotes - or even in-text referencing - is absent. The randomness is infuriating. The binge watching of Breaking Bad on Netflix is compared to the governmental phrasing of organ donation.
No. I can't believe it either.
There is no understanding of the sociology of the internet, footnotes - or even in-text referencing - is absent. The randomness is infuriating. The binge watching of Breaking Bad on Netflix is compared to the governmental phrasing of organ donation.
No. I can't believe it either.
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Mar 25, 2017 09:03PM
There are footnotes at the back of the book. Maybe you missed them because they're not noted in the text, but they are there. (I disliked a lot of the book too, incidentally.)
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Yes! It was totally random, especially in the later chapters.
Jennifer wrote: "There are footnotes at the back of the book. Maybe you missed them because they're not noted in the text, but they are there. (I disliked a lot of the book too, incidentally.)"Hi Jen - they were those crazy notes that cite the text and then the generic reference. That doesn't count as a footnote in my world :) xxx
Jennifer wrote: "There are footnotes at the back of the book. Maybe you missed them because they're not noted in the text, but they are there. (I disliked a lot of the book too, incidentally.)"Absolutely :)
